My Jim : a novel / Nancy Rawles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rawles, Nancy, 1958-

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American families--Fiction.

African American families.

Reminiscing in old age--Fiction.

Reminiscing in old age.

African American women--Fiction.

African American women.

Grandparent and child--Fiction.

Grandparent and child.

Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.

Loss (Psychology).

Teenage girls--Fiction.

Teenage girls.

Enslaved women--Fiction.

Enslaved women.

Older women--Fiction.

Older women.

Freed persons--Fiction.

Freed persons.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Historical fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Love stories.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

174 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

[First Edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Crown Publishers, [2005].

Summary:

"A spare and beautiful meditation on love and loss, MY JIM follows the life of Sadie, the abandoned wife of the escaped slave Jim from Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Nancy Rawles is a novelist and playwright who grew up in Los Angeles and began her career as a professional writer in Chicago. Her first novel, Love Like Gumbo, was awarded the 1998 American BookAward and Washington State's Governor's Writers Award, and her plays have been produced in Chicago, San Francisco, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Los Angeles, and Seattle. She lives and teaches creative writing in Seattle. She says of her work: "I believe that the study of history informs the present. I am the descendant of black and white slaveowners and black and white slaves, a fact that influences all of my life choices from whom I love to the work I choose to do."

Contents:

Part One. Marianne Libre

Part Two. Sadie Watson

Part Three. My Nanna.

Notes:

"Design by Lauren Dong. Illustrations by Tina Hoggatt."

Hurston/Wright Legacy Award - Fiction , Winner, 2006

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

1400054001 :

OCLC:

55597111